▚ GEAR FAQ ▚
What does the safety stop actually do?
It gives your fastest tissues a few extra minutes to release nitrogen at a shallow depth where the pressure gradient is gentle — cheap insurance layered on top of no-stop limits and slow ascents. That three-minutes-at-five-metres plateau is drawn into every dive profile on this site (and one of our tees). How and when to conduct it is your training agency’s call.
▚ TRAINING NOTEDive within your training and certification. This is gear research, not dive instruction, and not a substitute for training from a certified instructor. Service intervals and no-fly figures cited on this site are illustrative — follow your manufacturer’s manual and your agency’s / DAN’s guidance.